Mkava's Ramblings

So tomorrow is college again. Classes started last Monday and I only had to swap one class for the same class but with a new professor and time (Saturdays… bleh!). Either way, should be a good semester and hopefully I have plenty of time get some stuff during the semester, unlike the last 4 or 5. Like on Friday night and tonight, I wrote and finished a bash script that parses and logs (into a MySQL table) sensor information related to temperature of my CPU, system, and my fan speed. Which I think is awesome as it works and is setup to run as a cronjob for every */30 * * * * *. =] It was fun doing some shell programming again, after not doing much So hopefully once I have some data, I can start graphing the information into something neat and possibly useful.

Besides that, spent Saturday at my girlfriend’s parents for her dad’s birthday (he’s only 45.. my mom turns 55 later this year with my dad not too far behind..) and got back at nearly 2am. Was a ton of fun heading out there to see them and pester their kittens/cats. And today my girlfriend and I biked around the city the bit. Went to Pancheros for an awesome burrito, and then to a couple movies afterwards (Airbender /sucks/ and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time is pretty awesome throughout [nice visuals, good PoP feel, good stunts, good story surprisingly]). So all in all, fun weekend and… NO TAEKWONDO THIS WEEK!! WOOOOOO! =D

Anywho, back to the grindstone in the morning. Whee..

I’ve been slowly setting up different useful development tools over the last few weeks (namely a local and remote Version Control System (VCS) and local and remote task/bug tracker). Even if they are not ready to be shown off at all, I wanted a place to yammer about my projects’ development without having to completely make a new blog or jump through any more hoops with WordPress plug-ins to accomplish the same thing I did in about 5 minutes of hardcoding (I hate it, but nothing does what I want.. >.<). So I now have a development blog as part of my usual blog. Even though I would love to make my own blogging software, and that is likely a future project, I just want to be able to yammer away without staring at too much code just yet. So now I have this and it’ll do until I do accomplish that. A separate development blog would be awesome, but why waste the effort at this point, neh?

I made a separate hard-coded element on the navigation bar that will link to the Development Blog category. Simple, but effective. All of the posts related to the dev blog can be found there, always.

So in the future, I’ll have posts for my development blog. They likely won’t show up on the front-page, and even more likely not to appear in my Twitter account. But for now, things can work as they are. =) I look forward to yammering about my slowly-progressing projects. =)

So for the last few months or so, been getting lots of random users creating accounts with random emails, valid or not. So if you are real user and give two spits about this blog, feel free to comment. I appreciate any comments and such. I’ll approve if its not spam. Else I’m just going to delete the accounts as usual. =)

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I have posted the latest edition of the SimpleIRC (or as I jokingly refer to it, StupidIRC) over in the new “Helpful Junk” section of the site. I’m going to try to keep it up to date with all of the changes that may occur to it throughout the lifetime of its usage for CSIS 440 this semester. I’m hoping its simple enough, yet robust so it can be used in future projects for this class, or even as a way to teach people how IRC works a bit for those being trained in as network programmers at NFNet (people who will be using the IRC protocol on a personal level but instead of just using it, they will know it by heart). Four commands a basically decent structure should make things magically. =)

At time of this posting, Dr. Walker has yet to comment on it. Nor any other classmate was not there for the creation of the latest documentation for the simplistic protocol. *sigh*

Finally broke down and bought http://mattkava.com (update bookmarks?). So now when I finally make the website I want, and do get rid of WordPress (even though it is nice for the lazy person, very nice), I can just tell people to come here and a nice jumping off point for all my projects will be here, along with my ramblings and other personal crap as well. Yay the Internets.